• View topic - Bad Simplified Character Name mini-project

Posted: **Sun Jul 19, 2020 4:55 pm**

Of our 96,000+ people, I have several hundred people that did not convert properly from Big5 to GB. So their Simplified Names are malformed UTF-8 encodings that need manual correcting.

So I am asking for some editor assistance with these. I will post 100 of them at a time, and ask for one volunteer for each list of 100. I will simultaneously work on another list myself.

The Edit Basic Info needs to be in English Display, and the Simplified Name needs to be changed here:

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Posted: **Sun Jul 19, 2020 5:17 pm**

first list taken

Posted: **Sun Jul 19, 2020 6:15 pm**

Posted: **Sun Jul 19, 2020 6:32 pm**

second list taken

Posted: **Sun Jul 19, 2020 6:35 pm**

Thanks. I will post more later.

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:01 pm**

Go to UTF-8 search and search for ?

This gives you list of 630 people with malformed Simplified names. Please assist in correcting these:

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Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:48 pm**

Hey thanks Magic and Harlock for working through the list so fast!

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:06 pm**

Some characters cannot be fixed.

Escample: ? cannot be fixed, because its simplified is

https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary ... =%E7%B1%A3

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:22 pm**

calros wrote:Some characters cannot be fixed.

Escample: ? cannot be fixed, because its simplified is

https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary ... =%E7%B1%A3

? is the same - traditional and simplified. And they work fine.

"Some characters?"

What others are you talking about?

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Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:49 pm**

I do not understand, a while ago they did not work for me.

Now they work.

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:32 pm**

Nice work guys! The list is done!!

Thanks Magic and Harlock and calros.

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:57 pm**

calros wrote:I do not understand

I agree.

In this rapidly changing environment...when you have bug complaints, I need you to provide a picture of exactly what it is you see. And you need to include the location window in the browser. I need details....because details matter in what I do.

Posting three or four words or saying "some characters don't work" really does nothing but waste my time when I could be working on improving or fixing things.

I really want Big5 out of our lives, and it will require a team effort. Thanks and appreciation to all of you that have been eager to help.

Posted: **Fri Jul 24, 2020 11:50 pm**

For some reason, ? shows up as a ? in the English display for this page: http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=103854
I don't see what could be causing the problem.

Posted: **Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:24 am**

Opps. We ran out of field space on that name. So I have increased the field size there now so we have a 20 character max size limit now on people names. I have corrected the Trad/Simpl characters as well.

When we move these people-companies to companies, I will make the name field much larger to accommodate.

Thanks for remind me of this problem.We should be OK now.

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